Dan Dixon

Dan Dixon is a writer and academic living in Sydney. In 2021, he was awarded a Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Overland, and elsewhere.

Works By Dan Dixon

Swimming in Liberal Waters
Dan Dixon reviews Alexandre Lefebvre’s attempt to recast liberalism as a therapeutic program. Drawing on a range of social thinkers, Dixon argues, however, that liberalism’s convergence with self-help may prove more anaesthetising than energising....
16 Oct. 2024
Have Fun
I am looking for something to say about the short story as a category, something to distinguish it, and my mind alights on the word ‘fun’.
4 Dec. 2022
Nothing Obscure
The Game distinguishes itself because Kelly… rejects the notion that personhood is best understood in terms of a surface-depth model. In fact, Kelly is perpetually suspicious of the view that politicians (or people) consist of two divisible parts
6 Feb. 2022
A Sketch of Our Projects
One of the pleasures of Mother & I is joining Ware in the gradual discovery of his mother’s multitudinous character.
7 Nov. 2021
Pinpoint Nonchalance
Didion’s specific genius, once again on display in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, is that she orders her prose with such painstaking precision that one cannot help but glimpse the disorder roiling just beneath.
18 Aug. 2021
Storyline Fever
That there is no recovery for Blaine as such, that his subsequent path does not offer the pleasures of a neatly resolved narrative, becomes a way of considering broader cultural and political ills.
21 July. 2021
Sure Ground
To closely examine a writing process is to make writing seem possible where it often seems impossible. The impossibility of writing is the impossibility of the apartment I live in, that I am writing these words in, part of a building that was deca...
2 Nov. 2020
Love and Market Forces
‘On a formal level, the book tells a story about writing as professional work, and how it can (or at least once could) happen in Australia with some success. It also wonders, both explicitly and through its form, what it means for literary writing...
21 June. 2020
Why Would You Doubt Me?: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The sense that there exists a gap between language and the world is the theme to which Ben Lerner’s writing has most relentlessly returned.
5 Nov. 2019
Flex and Ripple: Geoff Dyer's Broadsword Calling Danny Boy
When I say that Broadsword is dedicated to describing Where Eagles Dare, I mean it. The book details each scene’s mechanics, its organising principle is plot exposition. It’s as if an electro-magnetic pulse, fine-tuned to wipe out all cinema, had
21 May. 2019

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Dan Dixon

Works By Dan Dixon

Swimming in Liberal Waters

Have Fun

Nothing Obscure

A Sketch of Our Projects

Pinpoint Nonchalance

Storyline Fever

Sure Ground

Love and Market Forces

Why Would You Doubt Me?: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

Flex and Ripple: Geoff Dyer's Broadsword Calling Danny Boy